Infographic Shows Every 'Game Of Thrones' Betrayal Ever

Trending News: Every 'Game Of Thrones' Betrayal Ever, In A Handy Infographic

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A bunch of legends have created a handy infographic detailing every Game of Thrones betrayal ever.

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There’s a lot of betrayal in Game of Thrones. When Roose Bolton isn’t betraying the Starks, or Jorah betraying Daenerys, Stannis is betraying (read, killing) his own flesh and blood, and Petyr is betraying, well, everyone.

In total, there were 77 acts of betrayal in the first six seasons of Game of Thrones. How do we know this? Because Venngage, an Infographics company, has plotted them all.

What’s more, they’ve thrown them all into a gigantic mind map that plots a sordid web of betrayal and counter betrayal. It’s either terrific or horrific or both, depending on your point of view.

The whole thing is worth marinating on but here are a few key takeaways:

To betray is to win. The biggest betrayers in Game of Thrones — Cersei and Petyr — ended Season 6 with scary amounts of power. Most of those they betrayed, on the other hand, are dead.

More characters are likely to be the victims of betrayal than the perps, which makes sense when you think about Game of Thrones’ ginormous body count.

The main motive for betrayal is a pursuit of power, followed by revenge.

The highest number of betrayals takes place in Season 1, which again makes sense given it’s what kicked off six years of blood and gore.

Venngage make clear that this is about the TV show only, not the book, and that they’ve probably missed a few (Ramsay Bolton and Myranda hunting down Tansy in season four comes to mind), but it’s still a pretty exhaustive piece of work.

The whole thing is really an advertisement for Venngage’s skill in infographics, of course, but with results as compelling as this, you’ll hardly mind.